Charlie Rose Brain Series Episode One. Tonight's introductory topic-- The Great Mysteries of the Human Brain: consciousness, free will, perception, cognition, emotion and memory with a roundtable of brain researchers. Co-Host Eric Kandel from Columbia University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Cornelia Bargmann from Rockefeller University, Tony Movshon from New York University, John Searle from University of California Berkeley and Gerald Fischbach of the Simons Foundation watch
...there is a very distinctive poetry to Ellen's camera. The pictures flow by with a cool, elegant musicality carrying with them an undertow of unexplained sadness. It may be the sadness of the outsider... -Eleanor Antin. The philosopher, John Searle, attempting to prove that artificial intelligence could appear intelligent but could never really recreate a human mind, wrote about a thought experiment called "The Chinese Room, " in his article, "Minds, Brains and Programs." He needed a foreign language to prove his point and he chose Chinese. This video is about the viewer as traveler, inside but outside, embarrassed and ecstatic, locked in the Chinese room and trying to understand." watch
...there is a very distinctive poetry to Ellen's camera. The pictures flow by with a cool, elegant musicality carrying with them an undertow of unexplained sadness. It may be the sadness of the outsider... -Eleanor Antin. The philosopher, John Searle, attempting to prove that artificial intelligence could appear intelligent but could never really recreate a human mind, wrote about a thought experiment called "The Chinese Room, " in his article, "Minds, Brains and Programs." He needed a foreign language to prove his point and he chose Chinese. This video is about the viewer as traveler, inside but outside, embarrassed and ecstatic, locked in the Chinese room and trying to understand." watch
